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title: "#Bipedal Animals & Superpower Traits (5 Species) | AnimalTracks.wiki"
description: "Upright two-legged stance and locomotion, freeing forelimbs for grasping or powering explosive leaping strides. Explore all 5 species with this trait in the AnimalTracks wildlife encyclopedia."
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# #Bipedal Animals & Evolutionary Adaptations

> Upright two-legged stance and locomotion, freeing forelimbs for grasping or powering explosive leaping strides.

- **Trait Category**: Speed & Physicality
- **Species Count**: 5 Curated Creatures
- **Browse Web**: [View interactive trait gallery](https://animaltracks.wiki/tags/bipedal/)

## Species With #Bipedal

- [Emu](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/emu/) (*Dromaius novaehollandiae*)
  - **Superpower**: Fathers that sit on the nest for about 8 weeks without eating or drinking
  - **Danger**: Medium | **Conservation**: Least Concern
  - **Soundtrack**: Max Richter (Neo-Classical & Baroque Chamber)
- [Frilled Lizard](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/frilled-lizard/) (*Chlamydosaurus kingii*)
  - **Superpower**: Raises a neck frill held up by hyoid bones and cartilages, with its mouth open, in a startle display; if that fails it usually runs for a tree on its hind legs.
  - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Least Concern
  - **Soundtrack**: Wolfmother (Classic Hard Rock & Southern Blues)
- [Gerenuk](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/gerenuk/) (*Litocranius walleri*)
  - **Superpower**: Rears onto its hind legs to browse tree leaves that are out of reach for most other antelope species
  - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Near Threatened
  - **Soundtrack**: Arvo Pärt (Neo-Classical & Baroque Chamber)
- [Greater Jerboa](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/greater-jerboa/) (*Jaculus orientalis*)
  - **Superpower**: Bipedal leaping on hind legs about four times the length of its forelimbs; leaps have been measured at up to 3 meters long
  - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Least Concern
  - **Soundtrack**: The Interrupters (Ska-Punk & 2-Tone)
- [Red Kangaroo](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/red-kangaroo/) (*Osphranter rufus*)
  - **Superpower**: Powerful hind legs and a balancing tail carry it at up to 64 km/h, and its energy use stays nearly the same as it hops faster on level ground.
  - **Danger**: Medium | **Conservation**: Least Concern
  - **Soundtrack**: AC/DC (Classic Hard Rock & Southern Blues)

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